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Andes Network

Andes testnet is a testnet focused on enabling validators to test out their infrastructure by running nodes connected to the network.

Network Name	Dill Testnet Andes
RPC URL	https://rpc-andes.dill.xyz/
Chain ID	558329
Currency symbol	DILL
Explorer URL	https://andes.dill.xyz/

Hardware Requirement

Below are the minimum hardware requirements to run Dill light validator node. It is also part of the consensus network, requires staking and earns DILL token for reward.

	Minimum
CPU	2 cores
Memory	2G
Disk	20G
Network	1MB/s

If you are using cloud computing platform such as AWS EC2, you can check different instance configurations at https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/

Or alternatively, you can use AWS Lightsail, which now offers the first 90 days free for the 2 GB Memory, 2 vCPUs Processing, 60 GB SSD Storage, 3 TB Transfer instances. More details are at https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/webapp/home/instances

Recommended OS

Ubuntu 22.04 (We are working on support for other Linux-like OS)

MacOS

Run a light validator

Light validator is a type of node that performs availability validation solely through data sampling without participating in data sharding synchronization. It is also part of a consensus network. These nodes can participate in voting but will not act as proposers to generate new blocks. You can follow the steps below to start a light validator:

Download the light validator binary package from:
- General Linux-like https://dill-release.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/dill.tar.gz
- MaxOS specific - https://dill-release.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/macos/dill.tar.gz
or simply run curl -O <https://dill-release.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/linux/dill.tar.gz> from your command line terminal